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|Apr 8, 1969
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|Mar 5, 1968
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|Mar 5, 1968
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|Maloney Richard P
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|Sun Oil Co
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|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (4), Classifications (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
GELLEI) LIQUID HYDROCARBON FUELS CON- TAINING CROSS-LINKED ATACTIC PROPYLENE POLYMERS Richard P. Malouey, Chester, Pa., assignor to Sun Oil Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of New Jersey No Drawing. Continuation-impart of application Ser. No. 590,497, Oct. 31, 1966. This application Mar. 5, 1968, Ser. No. 710,634
Int. Cl. C101 7/02 11.8. Cl. 44-7 10 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This disclosure describes gelled normally liquid volatile hydrocarbon fuel compositions and processes for obtaining them. These compositions contain 1 to 40 weight percent cross-linked atactic propylene polymers which can be derived from atactic polypropylene, atactic random propylene-ethylene copolymer, or atactic terminal block propylene-ethylene copolymer. The propyleneethylene copolymers can contain l30 weight percent copolymerized ethylene in the polymer chain. The gelled hydrocarbon compositions disclosed herein are particularly suited for use in military applications such as firebombs and fiamethrowers.
Cross reference to related application The present application is a continuation-in-part of my copending application Ser. No. 590,497, filed Oct. 31, 1966, now abandoned.
Brief summary of the invention This invention relates to novel gelled fuel compositions having improved viscoelastic properties and improved tack properties and to methods of obtaining them. More particularly this invention relates to gelled fuel compositions containing cross-linked propylene polymers as gelling agents for volatile combustible hydrocarbon liquids. Specifically this invention relates to tacky viscous gelled fuel compositions particularly suitable as fuel in firebombs, flamethrowers, and related areas of military applications.
Back-ground of the invention Considerable art has been developed heretofore with respect to the manufacture of gelled or thickened fuels, particularly for use in firebombs, flamethrowers, and related military applications. Thickening agents such as natural or synthetic rubber, metallic fatty acid soaps, and various synthetic organic and inorganic polymers have been proposed as gelling agents for gasoline or similar normally liquid volatile hydrocarbon fuels. For example, US. Patents 2,445,311 and 2,606,107 propose polyisobutylene as a gelling agent. US. Patent 3,084,033 discloses that crystalline polypropylene is suitable for gelling liquid hydrocarbons although amorphous polypropylene is said to be unsuitable for that purpose. Recently it has been disclosed that napalm B which consists of 25 percent gasoline, 25 percent benzene, and 50 percent polystyrene, is presently being used as a fuel for firebombs and flamethrowers. While many of the prior art thickening agents have provided usable gelled fuel compositions, certain inherent deficiencies in each of these compositions render these compositions only fair at best.
Previous attempts to use atactic polypropylene as a gelling agent for volatile normally liquid hydrocarbons have been disclosed to be unsuccessful. It has, however, been recently discovered that atactic random propyleneethylene copolymers and atactic terminal block propylenenited States Patent 3,43 7,462 Patented Apr. 8, 1969 ethylene copolymers are suitable for use as gelling agents for volatile normally liquid hydrocarbons. Compositions containing such copolymers are disclosed and claimed in my copending US. patent application Ser. No. 590,974, filed Oct. 31, 1966, now abandoned.
It has now been discovered that cross-linked atactic polypropylene and cross-linked propylene-ethylene c0- polymers provide improved gelled volatile liquid hydrocarbon fuel compositions particularly suited for military firebomb and flamethrower fuel applications. Whereas, the unmodified atactic polypropylene is said to be undesirable or unsuitable for gelling liquid hydrocarbon fuels (e.g., see U.S. Patent 3,084,033 noted above), the crosslinked atactic polypropylene has now been discovered to be particularly suitable for this purpose. And, whereas the atactic propyleneethylene copolymers have been shown to be quite suitable for use as gelling agents for normally liquid volatile hydrocarbon fuels, the crosslinked atactic propylene-ethylene copolymers provide further improved gelled hydrocarbon fuel compositions which require less cross-linked polymer than when untreated polymer is employed.
It is a principal object of this invention to provide a novel process for thickening normally liquid volatile hydrocarbons, employing novel thickening agents, whereby thickened fuel compositions having improved properties are obtained. Another object of this invention is to provide a process utilizing novel thickening agents for making gelled volatile liquid hydrocarbon compositions which have the combined properties of being insensitive to moisture, and of having improved tack properties, and which require less thickening agent than other gelled fuel compositions heretofore disclosed. A more specific object of this invention is to provide new and improved gelled fuel compositions containing cross-linked atactic propylene polymer made from atactic polypropylene, cross-linked atactic random propylene-ethylene copolymers made from atactic propylene-ethylene copolymer or cross-linked atactic terminal block propylene-ethylene copolymers made from atactic terminal block propyleneethylene copolymers as the thickening or gelling agents. These and other objects and benefits will become more readily apparent from a reading of the following detailed description of the invention.
Description of the invention It has now been discovered that normally liquid hydrocarbons and mixtures thereof can be thickened to form a viscous tacky gelled fuel composition particularly suitable for firebomb and flamethrower fuel applications by ad mixture of the normally liquid hydrocarbons with a minor proportion (1-40 weight percent and preferably 5 to 25 weight percent) of cross-linked atactic polypropylene or cross-linked propylene-ethylene copolymers. It has been discovered that the cross-linked atactic polypropylene or propylene-ethylene copolymers inherently will absorb larger volumes of liquid hydrocarbons than the same polymers uncross-linked while maintaining gel characteristics. Thus a relatively small amount of cross-linked atactic polypropylene or atactic propylene-ethylene copolymer is needed to provide a suitable thickened normally-liquid hydrocarbon firebomb fuel composition. It has also been discovered that a gelled fuel composition prepared with cross-linked atactic polypropylene or propylene-ethylene copolymer has the further advantages of being highly tacky or sticky and also unaffected by moisture. These two particular advantages of gelled fuel compositions containing cross-linked atactic propylene polymer, made from atactic polypropylene or propylene-ethylene copolymer, along with the added characteristics of high stability and quick ignition over a broad temperature range, render these compositions particularly suitable and desirable for use in firebomb or flamethrower applications.
By the term atactic propylene polymers as disclosed herein is meant the substantially solid amorphous fraction of polymer recovered from the stereospecific polymerization of propylene or mixtures of propylene and ethylene wherein the major amount of polymerized monomer in the product is propylene. This polymer fraction is generally known in the art as the atactic fraction recovered as a by-product from the low pressure stereospecific polymerization process used in making crystalline polypropylene and propylene-ethylene copolymers. These stereospecific polymerization procedures are well known to those skilled in the art. Examples of this type of process are disclosed in Belgian Patent 538,782 and British Patent 994,416, as Well as many others. Atactic propylene polymers are generally characterized as solid amorphous polymers having a molecular weight in the range of MOO-300,000, as measured by intrinsic viscosity in decalin at 275 F., and a density in the range of 0.82 to 0.91. The structure of the random copolymer is conceived to be of the general formula -PPPEPPPPEEPPPPEPPPPP wherein P is a polymerized propylene monomer and E is a polymerized ethylene monomer. The typical atactic random propylene-ethylene copolymer can contain 120 weight percent polymerized ethylene and have an average molecular weight in the range of 20,000 to 150,000.
The structure of the terminal block propylene-ethylene copolymer is believed to be similar to the formula Again P represents a polymerized propylene monomer and E represents a polymerized ethylene monomer. The typical atactic terminal block propylene-ethylene copolymer can contain 5-30 weight percent polymerized ethylene in the propylene polymer molecule as measured by infrared analysis and have an average molecular weight in the range of 50,000 to 300,000. The atactic fraction of propylene-ethylene copolymers can also contain small quantities 5%) of polyethylene as an impurity. These atactic propylene polymers can be cross-linked to provide a highly satisfactory and improved gelling agent for hydrocarbon fuel compositions.
In the process the polymers are prepared by polymerizing the constituent monomers in the desired proportions with the aid of certain polymerization catalysts, e.g., see above-mentioned Belgian patent. The catalysts are solid, insoluble, reaction products obtained by partially reducing a reducible, heavy, transition halide of a Group N12 or VIb or VIII metal with a reducing Group I and III metalcontaining material such as an organometallic compound of an alkali, alkaline earth, rare earth metal or zinc. They can also be advantageously prepared by reducing an approprite metal compound with the aid of metallic aluminum or a mixture of aluminum, and titanium, etc. A catalyst of this type can thus be prepared, for example, by reducing 1 mole of titanium tetrahalide, usually tetrachloride, to the corresponding trivalent or subtrivalent titanium halide with about 0.2 to 6 moles of aluminum triethyl, triisobutyl, or other aluminum alkyl compound of the formula RRAIX. In this formula, R, R and X can comprise alkyl groups and which can alternatively be hydrogen or a halogen, notably chlorine. The reducing is carried out by dissolving each of the two catalyst components in an inert solvent, preferably a C to C paraffin such as isopentane or n-heptane, and mixing the two solutions in the proper proportions at temperatures between 0 and 300 F. and in the absence of moisture, oxygen, and sulfur impurities. The resulting precipitate in conjunction with some free aluminum alkyl compound is generally considered to constitute the actual active polymerization catalyst. Other organic and metallo-organic coordinators such as tetra ethoxy-silane or the dimethyl ethers of polyethylene glycol can also be added to form the coordinated complex catalysts usable for alpha-olefin polymerizations. Alternatively, it is possible to carry out the catalyst preparation using only about 0.3 to 0.8 mole of the aluminum alkyl compound per mole of titanium chloride, and then add a supplemental amount of the aluminum alkyl compound to the polymerization zone to raise the Al/Ti mole ratio therein to a value between about 1:1 and 3:1.
The monomers are then contacted with the resulting catalyst in the presence of inert hydrocarbon solvents. The hydrocarbon solvents that have been shown to be particularly useful for this purpose and particularly for propylene polymerizations include hexane and heptane.
The polymerization is conveniently effected at temperatures of about to 250 F, and pressures ranging from about 0 to 500 p.s.i.g., usually 0 to 100 p.s.i.g. The catalyst concentration in the polymerization zone is preferably in the range of about 0.01 to 0.5 weight percent based on total liquid and the polymer product concentration in the polymerization zone is preferably kept between about 5 to 15 weight percent based on total contents so as to allow easy handling of the polymerized mixture. The proper polymer concentration can be obtained by having enough of the inert diluent present or by controlling the polymerization short of 100% conversion.
When the desired degree of polymerization has been reached, a C to C alkanol such as methyl alcohol, ethanol, or isopropyl alcohol is normally added to the reaction mixture for the purpose of deactivating and partially dissolving the catalyst. However, other methods of catalyst deactivation well known to those skilled in the art can alternately be used.
Typical alpha-olefin polymerization products obtained from the above-disclosed methods are normally mixtures of polymers with varying molecular structures and varying molecular Weights which can be fractionated by solvents, the solvent-separated fractions being polymers of difierent structures and different molecular weights. In the polymerization process using an inert hydrocarbon polymerization medium such as pentane, hexane, or heptane, the product obtained will be generally in a slurry form and is normally partially .soluble in the polymerization medium.
Generally, the insoluble polymer product is recovered from the solvent containing the dissolved polymer fractions by centrifuging the slurry or by filtration or both. The recovered solid polymer product is often subsequently washed with alcohol and dried to yield a White powdery high molecular weight, highly crystalline polymer product. This polymer fraction is normally referred to as the crystalline fraction.
The remaining solvent-soluble propylene polymer fractions often referred to as the atactic fraction are composed of primarily amorphous polypropylene or propylene copolymer which are defined as polymers of a non-stereoregular structure, which polymers are not crystallizable. Also, stereoblock polymer, which has been described as a generally linear alpha-olefin polymer having crystallizable segments of stereoregular structure and non-crystallizable segments of irregular structure in the same molecule, and crystalline polymers are present as, impurities in atactic propylene polymers.
The atactic polymer can be recovered as a solid polymeric residue from the polymerization solvent by simple distillation or steam stripping. The dried polymer can then be cross-linked by blending the polymer with 0.5 to 10 weight percent of a cross-linking agent and masticating the mixture at a temperature in the range of 250 to 500 F. for a time period of from 0.1 to 10 hours. Crosslinking agents usable in the process of the present invention include certain organic peroxides. These organic peroxides are those known in the art that decompose and form free radicals, upon heating. Some of the free radical generating organic peroxides which can be used to crosslink the propylene polymers of the present invention include symmetrical or bis(aralkyl) and bis(alkyl) peroxides; dibenzyl peroxide, bis(a-methylbenzyl) peroxide, bis(a,a dimethylnaphthylmethyl) peroxide, bis(a,a-dimethyl-p-methylbenzyl) peroxide, bis(a,a dimethyl-pisopropyl-benzyl) peroxide and di-t-butyl peroxide.
Unsymmetrical peroxides useful to cross-link the polymers of this invention include benzyl(a-methylbenzyl) peroxide, benZyMa-methyI p methylbenzyl) peroxide, benzyl(a-methyl-p-isopropylbenzyl) peroxide, and t-butyl (u,a-dimethylbenzyl) peroxide. Other well known crosslinked catalysts include benzoyl peroxide, acetyl peroxide, lauroyl peroxide, t-butyl perbenzoate, cumene hydroperoxide, and dicurnyl peroxide. Other free radical formers are the azo compounds such as a,a-azobis(isobutyronitrile).
The liquid hydrocarbons which can be thickened in accordance with the invention include pure hydrocarbons of any structural configuration, and mixtures of any and all such types, boiling within the range of from about 80 F. to about 650 F. at atmospheric pressure. Straightor branched-chain paraffins and olefins, cycloparaflins and aromatic hydrocarbons can thus be thickened in accordance with this invention. Non-limiting examples of such hydrocarbons are: pentane, hexane, octane, decane, isopentane, isooctane, triptane, pentene-l, Z-methylb-utene- 1, hexene-l, heptene-l, octene-l, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylene, and the like. Various fractions of naturally-existing mixtures of hydrocarbons, such as certain fractions of petroleum, can also be satisfactorily thickened in accordance with the invention. Petroleum fractions boiling within the above-stated permissible atmospheric boiling range, including gasoline, kerosine, petroleum spirits, and No. 2 furnace oil, are particularly suitable for use in making a gelled volatile liquid hydrocarbon fuel concentrate. Gasoline fractions generally comprise mixtures of hydrocarbons boiling within the range of from about 80 F. to about 440 F., at atmospheric pressure. Petroleum spirits boil in the range of 300-400 F. and kerosine has an atmospheric boiling range of from about 350 F. to about 550 F. No. 2 furnace oil normally boils in the range of 400 to 650 F. at atmospheric pressure. Mixtures of such petroleum fractions in any and all proportions can also be suitably thickened in accordance with this invention. However, it is preferred that mixtures of petroleum fractions which comprise a No. 2 furnace oil fraction or other high boiling fractions should contain at least 80 weight percent gasoline to provide the volatility characteristics required in most applications for thickened hydrocarbon fuels.
As one means of illustration of the process and compo sitions of the present invention, the following examples are herein presented. As given hereinbelow all parts and percentages are by weight and all boiling point temperatures are at atmospheric pressure except where otherwise stated.
One procedure for cross-linking atactic propylene polymers comprises blending 1000 grams of the polymer with 40 grams of dicurnyl peroxide and subsequently or concurrently heating the blend at 300 F. and masticating the heated mixture for 30 minutes. Each of the atactic propylene polymers disclosed in the examples given below were cross-linked by this procedure.
Example I 100 grams of cross-linked atactic polypropylene as described hereinabove were blended with 300 grams of a narrow cut petroleum fraction characterized as a mixture of hydrocarbons boiling in the range of 300-400 F. and generally comprised of 50 percent paraffins, 30 percent naphthenes and 20 percent aromatics. The blend heated and maintained at a temperature of 175 F. and stirred for two hours. A thick viscous liquid hydrocarbon gel concentrate resulted. The gelled concentrate was cooled to room temperature and further blended with 200 grams of gasoline. The finished blend comprised a highly viscous thickened hydrocarbon fuel composition readily ignitable and gel stable at any temperature in the range of 40 to +125" F. In 'view of the fact that atactic polypropylene that has not been cross-linked has been previously disclosed as being unsuitable or undesirable for use in forming gelled hydrocarbon fuel compositions, the present example demonstrates a substantial improvement in this art.
Example H 100 grams of cross-linked random propylene-ethylene copolymer as described hereinabove were used to gel 1000 grams of a volatile normally liquid hydrocarbon fuel identical to that disclosed in Example I. The procedure used in gelling the copolymer was identical to that used in Example I. The properties of this gelled volatile normally liquid hydrocarbon fuel composition were substantially equivalent to the properties of the composition of Example I. 250 grams of uncross-linked random propylene-ethylene copolymer were necessary to provide a gelled composition substantially equivalent in properties to the composition of this example.
Example III 100 grams of cross-linked terminal block propyleneethylene copolymer of the type hereinabove described were blended with a hydrocarbon liquid as described in Example I in the identical manner as disclosed in Example II. A composition substantially equivalent to that of Example II was recovered. Approximately 200 grams of uncross-linked terminal block propylene-ethylene copolymer were necessary to provide a gelled liquid hydrocarbon fuel composition substantially equivalent to the composition of this example.
The above examples illustrate the fact that cross-linked atactic propylene polymers provide substantially improved gelled liquid hydrocarbon fuel compositions when compared with other similar compositions including the uncross-linked propylene polymers.
The invention claimed is:
1. A gelled normally liquid 'volatile hydrocarbon fuel composition comprising a major amount of a normally liquid volatile hydrocarbon fuel and a minor amount of cross-linked atactic propylene polymer.
2. A composition according to claim 1 wherein said polymer is cross-linked atactic polypropylene.
3. A composition according to claim 1 wherein said polymer is cross-linked atactic random propylene-ethylene copolymer.
4. A composition according to claim 3 wherein the copolymer contains 1 to 20 percent copolymerized ethylene.
5. A composition according to claim 1 wherein said polymer is cross-linked atactic terminal block propyleneethylene copolymer.
6. A composition according to claim 5 wherein the copolymer contains 5 to 30percent copolymerized ethylene.
7. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the normally liquid hydrocarbon comprises a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons which boil in the range of 650 F.
8. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the normally liquid hydrocarbon is gasoline.
9. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the cross-linked atactic propylene polymer comprises 1 to 40 percent by weight of the total composition.
10. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the cross-linked atactic propylene polymer comprises 5 to 25 weight percent of the total composition.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,917,458 12/1959 Morway et a1 25259 X 3,084,033 4/ 1963 Kelly et al. 44--7 3,336,121 8/1967 Jacobson et a1. 447-7 DANIEL E. WYMAN, Primary Examiner. CARL F. DEES, Assistant Examiner.
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|Apr 9, 1957
|Dec 15, 1959
|Exxon Research Engineering Co
|Polypropylene grease
|Oct 27, 1960
|Apr 2, 1963
|Sun Oil Co
|Process for thickening liquid hydrocarbons
|Jul 28, 1966
|Aug 15, 1967
|Exxon Research Engineering Co
|Thickening agents for liquid hydrocarbons
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|Feb 11, 1997
|Mar 9, 1999
|Pennzoil Products Company
|Transparent gel candles
|Jun 20, 1997
|Sep 26, 2000
|Pennzoil-Quaker State Company
|Ethylene-alpha-olefin polymers, processes and uses
|May 7, 1999
|Jul 17, 2001
|Pennzoil-Quaker State Company
|Ethylene-alpha-olefin polymers, processes and uses
|May 22, 2002
|May 4, 2004
|Penzoil-Quaker State Company
|Ethylene alpha-olefin polymers, process and uses
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AT LARGE: Tuscaloosa's Bloody Tuesday'
Though often overlooked, the attacks on this civil rights march are comparable to Selma's famed Bloody Sunday'
Published: Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.
If billy clubs and axe handles crack skulls, and there is no national media around to document the atrocity, did it really happen?
Indeed it did, and in our own fair city on June 8, 1964, well before the notorious and iconic Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7 the next year.
Over the years, as the details have been documented, the incident at the First African Baptist Church has become know as Tuscaloosas Bloody Tuesday, when 33 black men, women and children were sent to the hospital and another 94 arrested by the Tuscaloosa Police Department as a group of civil rights activists tried to march a few blocks, from the church on 7th Street to the newly built Tuscaloosa County Courthouse.
All I wanted to do was drink from the whites only water fountain, Maxie Thomas, who was hit on the left side of the head by a policemans baton and nearly lost an eye, told me in one of our Black History Month Town Hall segments. (Visit www.tuscaloosanews.com to see the segment.)
Tear gas was fired through the windows of the church, people were arrested in the sanctuary and surrounding streets and a general melee broke out among police, marchers and white thugs, who just showed up to get in on the action. And, yet, youll have a hard time finding a record of the incident in a history book.
I first became aware of Bloody Tuesday when former University of Alabama historian Cully Clark shared an oral history of the incident. Clarks lecture was part of a Columbia University project that sent New York students with tape recorders to the South to collect first person accounts of the civil rights movement.
At the time, I was writing a column about how two of those who were in the church on Bloody Tuesday, Thomas and Odessa Warrick, were running for the same spot on the Tuscaloosa City Council (Warrick won) as an illustration of how both the times and they had changed.
But as I was interviewing Thomas a few days ago, I wondered why the story was not better known. After all, it preceded the violence in Selma and almost matched it in carnage 50 people were hospitalized on Bloody Sunday.
The only reason I can think of is that the wire services and national TV networks had not been forewarned perhaps because there was no nationally-known leader like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. involved.
Maxie did have several lurid The Hell Hole of Tuscaloosa contemporaneous accounts of the story in Muhammad Speaks, Pittsburghs black Muslim newspaper. I decided to go back and check the coverage in The Tuscaloosa News that week. To put it kindly, The News which had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for an editorial taking on the Klan did not cover itself in glory with our local coverage.
The faithful mass meeting at First African Baptist on June 8 was organized by the Tuscaloosa Citizens for Action Committee and the Rev. T.Y. Rogers, who had been sent by King himself to Tuscaloosa to head the movement here.
The News was an afternoon paper at the time, and in the June 8th edition there was a sketchy account of the violence, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m.:
A heavy concentration of law enforcement officers surrounded the First African Baptist Church here this morning while several hundred Negroes were assembled inside apparently preparing to march on the downtown area of Tuscaloosa, a front-page story with no byline began.
The story reported that the night before Rogers told people rallying for the march to come prepared to go to jail and bring your toothpaste. The story said Rogers had vowed to march despite a ban on demonstrations in the downtown area Monday by Police Chief William Marable.
The story, which obviously buried the lead, as we say in the newspaper business, reported in the ninth paragraph:
A throng of Negro demonstrators attempting to march en masse on downtown Tuscaloosa were driven back to the First African Baptist Church at least three times by local law enforcement officers ... .
The Negroes poured out of the church about 10:15 a.m. after a session of songs and handclapping. They were stopped less than a block away by officers. Rogers was arrested and the others forced back to the church.
While there was no mention of violence in the first-day account, The News reported at least one side of the story in two front-page articles the next day. Again neither had a byline.
The main story, Scattered Violence Reported, said: A few scattered incidents of violence were reported overnight here following a wild clash between policemen and Negro demonstrators that resulted in the arrest of 94 persons and that the 45-minute siege ... sent 33 Negroes and one policeman to Druid City Hospitals emergency room for treatment of cuts, bruises and tear gas sickness.
The story said the violence was the first in Tuscaloosa since Autherine Lucy had unsuccessfully tried to integrate the University of Alabama eight years earlier, only to be driven from the campus by a mob before later being expelled for accusing UA officials of conspiring with the rioting crowd (which history shows was a trumped-up charge).
The other front-page story (again no byline) reads partially as an apology for the authorities not taking stronger action. But if you read between the lines, you can see there had also been some attacks from the white mob that had gathered.
Under the headline, Troublemakers Handed Warning, the story says, City officials have explained why they permitted Negro anti-segregation demonstrations to continue as long as they did and have issued appeals to let police handle the situation without interference.
A telling statement from Tuscaloosa Public Safety Commission George Ryan read, We have shown we can and will maintain law and order with manpower at hand in Tuscaloosa and can continue to do so if people will leave us alone to do the job.
But we must have, and will demand respect for legal authority from both white and Negro alike.
Then Mayor George M. Van Tassel weighed in condescendingly:
We have been pretty patient with these people. What happened this morning was most regrettable and need not have happened. We warned them what would happen and they still ignored us.
Since they chose to ignore our advice and defy authority, we had no choice but to take the course of action that we did, the mayor concluded.
That course of action became Tuscaloosas Bloody Tuesday, one of the more overlooked tales of the civil rights era.
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Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, Thomas Frank, columnist for Harper's Magazine and author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas, says the success of the Tea Party shows that going after the "magic middle" of the American electorate is a mistake.
Where is the "center" in American politics? Not where you think, according to Thomas Frank.
Politicians are always trying to win over the median voter, which is itself a theoretical abstraction that describes people who fall between the extremes of the left and the right. Of course, that encompasses most Americans, so politicians rightfully cater to this center.
However, Frank says that for all the effort politicians spend on winning the "magic middle," the government as a whole hasn't been striking a true balance between left and right.
In historical terms, the political system of the country has been moving to the right for over 30 years, and it keeps moving to the right even though there is no corresponding movement to the right among voters. The median voter is not moving to the right, but the politics are.
One explanation for this is money. Growing income inequality and an increasing concentration of wealth at the top tax bracket has meant that the wealthiest Americans have had an unprecedented largess to spend on campaigns, lobbying, and other political operations. Generally, Frank says, these donors support conservative fiscal policies regardless of whether they're backing Democratic or Republican candidates.
I would say that those people have probably pushed the Democrats to the right. In fact there's no question about it. One of the reasons Democrats weren't able to come up with a proper re-regulation of Wall Street, the sort of things that really needed to happen after the collapse in 2008, is that's who funds their campaigns.
Frank argues that interests supporting conservative policies are better represented in Washington. The average voter only flexes his or her muscle once every two years at the polls, but lobbyists have a dedicated street in DC. Therefore, the government moves right while the population stays put.
What has changed for the average voter is how each party is trying to mobilize them. Frank says that the left and the right have traded vote-getting strategies since the 1960s.
The right is very comfortable with the idea of populist discontent…That's what the left used to do in this country. You look at what's happened the last two years in this country. There are hordes of angry discontented people, and what is the liberal response? We know what the conservative response is, but what's the liberal response?
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That's the quintessentially liberal response. Think of Al Gore's last book, The Assault on Reason. It's always about reason, reasonableness, professionalism. The Democratic Party understands itself as a coming together of different professional groups, a rally of the reasonable. This is why Obama was so massively popular. His reasonableness is overwhelming.
Most of Obama's popularity has since worn off. At the end of the interview, Frank was asked about a survey that showed that 35 percent of Americans identify as conservative while only 20 percent identify as liberal. That would mean that the median voter has in fact moved to the right along with the government, contradicting his earlier claim.
Perhaps the "center" just looks different to Democrats? Frank doesn't think so. He said that these statistics reflect perceptions of terminology, not policy.
The word liberal itself has been poisoned. Nobody wants to self-identify as that, but people still believe in the New Deal. They still expect to get their social security check, people like Medicare. Remember "get your government hands off my Medicare?" Is that person liberal or conservative? People do not know, and they don't want to use those terms.
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I share in the general pleasure that a worthy charity has enormously increased its finances, which may speed up a cure for a terrible disease. On the tally board of life, this profuse bucketing outbreak goes on the plus side for those of us who'd like to believe that people are basically good and inclined to help others in need.
And I also see the cavils: that this movement is a "slacktivist" fad, an easy and lazy manifestation of commitment; that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is relatively rare, and perhaps less deserving of funding than more prevalent maladies like malaria, diabetes, and Alzheimer's; and that research funding should be determined by the rational standards of peer review rather than clickbait.
But my own foremost (and self-centered) response to this orgy of charitable energy is: If only I'd thought of it first. We might have a half-dozen new endowed chairs in our department and teaching-free dissertation fellowships for every one of our graduate students. Zadie Smith and Thomas Pynchon would be the featured speakers in our English department lecture series. (Granted, Pynchon's not very visible on the lecture circuit, but wait until he sees our offer!)
Is our cause sufficiently worthy? Of course it is, and it's pointless to argue whether higher education or ALS is more deserving: apples and oranges. The suffering of an ALS victim is terrible. The plight of people who cannot maximize their talents, too, is terrible. At my university, where over half our students qualify for Pell Grants and a third are first-generation college students, I see firsthand every day how profoundly meaningful a college education is for those who are marginally able to achieve it, and how fundamentally valuable it would be to extend that margin as much as possible.
So what can we do to connect with the public, to promote our worthy cause, and to set off a chain reaction that will bring along hordes of people jumping onto our bandwagon?
In the meta-analysis of the ice bucket challenge, many have commented on the arbitrariness of charitable giving and of catching the public's eyes and hearts. But still, is there something we in academe can learn from this? Is this sort of philanthropic enterprise replicable?
Where can I sign up my department to raise millions of dollars? I suppose I'd include the humanities at large – or even more magnanimously, I'll extend the invitation to academe generally. (Participants from every campus could sport their university T-shirts to identify the recipient of each donation.)
Nearly as important as the cash, it would be extremely rewarding to find ourselves in the thick of a snowballing social movement, like the ALS campaign, that raises national consciousness and unleashes a contagious enthusiasm about what we do in higher education and how deserving our mission is of support.
Probably the appeal of the ice bucket campaign was lucky and unpredictable; if anyone knew exactly what makes a multimillion-hit meme, I imagine there would be consultants charging multimillion-dollar fees to produce them. (Perhaps there actually are such consultants, though I'm not aware of them.) Is it the snazzy visuals of the unexpected? The counterintuitive willingness to ruin an outfit and suffer – however momentarily – what I imagine would be a very unpleasant experience? (I haven't taken this challenge myself, though I strongly suspect that I will be invited to do so any minute now.)
Honestly, I don't have any bright ideas about how exactly to stage an academic iteration: a pie in the face? Banana peel pratfalls? Blind man's bluff into a vat of tomato sauce?
Perhaps we in the academy should aspire to something more dignified, but maybe, presuming that the success of ALS merits attention as a "best practice" ripe for our own adaptation, what draws massive crowds of participants is precisely the unexpected contrast between the seriousness of the problem and the oddly undignified escapism of the momentary "challenge."
Some kind of slapstick gesture seems necessary: something physical and messy and shocking, involving a very intimately personal – bodily – engagement.
As silly as it is, the ALS Association's challenge represents a wonderful manifestation of human ambition and determination: curing a debilitating disease seems undoable until it's doable. With enough resolve, and enough money to throw at the problem, and enough human intelligence (which mainly takes the form, I will note, of academic research), it can be done.
The same goes for a university education. Our scholarship, our teaching, and our community partnerships all contribute to the creation of a better society as measured by myriad qualitative and quantitative metrics. The notion of millions of citizens taking the time and energy to help us out by doing something that affirms our value would vitally reinvigorate our campuses after years of retrenched government funding and skyrocketing student debt. If our campaign were as successful as the ice bucket challenge – and why not dare to dream big? – we could actually mitigate those twin financial catastrophes that have lately taken such a toll on higher education.
I've done the hard part here in announcing this challenge to launch our challenge. Now somebody please just send me the YouTube link when you've figured out the specifics.
Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor and chair of the English department at Georgia State University.
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Before the Rivera sisters exploded on the scene with the force of a three-hit combo, turning East Union into a section heavy, another prolific sister act tormented defenses.
OAKDALE – Records are made to be broken, but when you break a record that has stood for longer than you have been alive, that is something special.
MODESTO - Joshua Patton, donning the away blues of Sierra High, stood his ground as teammate and longtime friend Hunter Johnson - wearing Sierra's home whites - looked to find a hole in the 6-foot-8 center's elongated reach to shoot through.
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Clarissa Lecce kept her legs moving, reading the run of play as it moved across the field, anticipating each bounce of the ball.
Nothing is better for a team than controlling its own destiny.
Greg Jones brought Manteca back with his bat and then won the game with his eyes.
MODESTO – Nik Lengert was resourceful and resolute, surviving a marathon match and the hottest of day of the season to reach today's final of the Trans-Valley League Singles Tournament.
The anticipated rematch between the Manteca and East Union girls sprinters will have to wait.
East Union clinched at least a share of the Valley Oak League softball title after Thursday's 13-4 victory over rival Manteca High at Northgate Softball Complex.
Hunter Johnson and Joshua Patton shared the Valley Oak League's MVP honor in what was a historic season for Sierra High's Sac-Joaquin Section Division III champion boys basketball team.
Ripon put together a strong finish to its Trans-Valley League championship run on Thursday, although the heated match with visiting Hughson ended prematurely.
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